What is intersting in the new novel "Pure" written by Andrew Miller
01 Feb 2012 02:03:50
The eight-member panel, led by London Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig, was sharply divided between awarding "Pure" the overall award and "Now All Roads Lead to France", an account of the final years of poet Edward Thomas's life.
The latter, the prose debut of poet Matthew Hollis, had been the bookmakers' favorite to walk away with the winner's cheque for 30,000 pounds ($47,000).
The other shortlisted works were debut novel "Tiny Sunbirds Far Away" by Christie Watson, "The Bees" by British ... Read Full Story
Chetan Bhagat about work and achievements
01 Feb 2012 02:01:38
Bhagat, whose five novels have sold around 6 million copies, condemned the banning of texts at the Jaipur Literature Festival but criticised people who proclaim their writers as heroes for upholding the right to free speech.
"(Banned books) have hurt people, they have hurt Muslims," said Bhagat. "I don't think anyone should be banned... but let's not make heroes out of them."
Rushdie said on Friday that he was abandoning his visit to the five-day festival due to assassination threats against him... Read Full Story
Michael Gove' and King James Bible
29 Jan 2012 03:11:37
A plan by the education secretary, Michael Gove, to send a copy of the King James Bible to every school in the country – each including a personal inscription from him – has run into trouble after government sources reported he has been told to find private funding for the project.
Sources said David Cameron told Gove that while he supported the idea, the education secretary should avoid using taxpayers' money for it. But Gove has yet to find a private philanthropic sponsor for the enterprise, ... Read Full Story
What do you know about Jaipur literary festival in India?
29 Jan 2012 03:06:06
Salman Rushdie's appearance at the Jaipur literary festival in India is still in doubt, after a controversial Muslim cleric said that the author "should not be allowed to visit India".
The festival's co-director, William Dalrymple, confirmed that Friday's scheduled event would not take place, but did not say whether Rushdie would appear at another festival event.
"His invitation still stands," he said, "but he's not appearing tomorrow in his scheduled slot." Dalrymple was unwilling to discuss ... Read Full Story
What Tiger Woods think about Hank Haney
29 Jan 2012 03:00:37
Tiger Woods starts his season in Abu Dhabi next week unhappy that his former coach Hank Haney is writing a book about their time together. "I think it's unprofessional and very disappointing," Woods told espn.com, "especially because it's someone I worked with and trusted as a friend.
"There have been other one-sided books about me and I think people understand that this book is about money. I'm not going to waste my time reading it. I just think this book is very self-serving."
Haney left Woo... Read Full Story
Salman Rushdie about heк festival
28 Jan 2012 05:24:27
Salman Rushdie, who was forced to pull out of Asia's biggest literary festival in India after authorities revealed "specific intelligence" of a death threat against him, has said he believes the information was false.
"I've investigated, and believe that I was indeed lied to. I am outraged and very angry," the British writer wrote on Twitter.
Rushdie was scheduled to be one of the stars of the Jaipur Literature Festival in the capital of the state of Rajasthan, in north-west India.
Two weeks... Read Full Story
Jack Gantos' "Dead End in Norvelt"
28 Jan 2012 05:20:38
Jack Gantos' "Dead End in Norvelt" won the John Newbery Medal for the best children's book of 2011, and Chris Raschka's "A Ball for Daisy" won the Randolph Caldecott award for best illustration. The American Library Association announced the awards Monday.
No cash prizes are given, but the awards are watched closely by booksellers and librarians and often lead to increased sales. Previous winners include such favorites as Brian Selznick's "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," the basis for Martin Scor... Read Full Story
Alex Ross's The Rest is Noise will stars in 2013 year
28 Jan 2012 05:18:38
When Alex Ross started writing The Rest is Noise in 2000 he never expected that a book about 20th-century classical music would go on to sell 250,000 copies and win literary prizes around the world – including the Guardian First Book Award. Now the book's extraordinary success has scaled new heights with the announcement of a year-long festival at London's Southbank Centre which aims to bring it to life.
The Rest is Noise festival will take in almost 100 concerts, films and debates, starting on... Read Full Story
Paula Deen and her new diet
25 Jan 2012 01:43:52
The queen of Southern comfort cooking, now a spokeswoman for a diabetes drugmaker's health initiative, announced last week that she hid her Type 2 diabetes for about three years while continuing to cook up deep-fried cheesecake and bacon-and-egg burgers between doughnuts on TV.
Choosing to digest her ill health privately all those years, Deen's story is familiar to those in chef's jackets who already had gone public with the question few in their world love to talk about: How do you stay healthy... Read Full Story
Andrew Miller with his new book "Pure"
25 Jan 2012 01:43:06
The eight-member panel, led by London Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig, was sharply divided between awarding "Pure" the overall award and "Now All Roads Lead to France", an account of the final years of poet Edward Thomas's life.
The latter, the prose debut of poet Matthew Hollis, had been the bookmakers' favorite to walk away with the winner's cheque for 30,000 pounds ($47,000).
The other shortlisted works were debut novel "Tiny Sunbirds Far Away" by Christie Watson, "The Bees" by British ... Read Full Story
The world lost a talented person - Charla Krupp
25 Jan 2012 01:40:01
Charla Krupp, a popular author and commentator on fashion and beauty whose best-sellers included "How Not to Look Old" and "How to Never Look Fat Again," has died at age 58.
Krupp's husband, Richard Zoglin, said she died Monday of breast cancer at their home in Manhattan.
Krupp made numerous television appearances over the years. According to her publisher, the Hachette Book Group, she was on NBC's "Today" show more than 100 times and was featured on Oprah Winfrey's syndicated talk program and o... Read Full Story
At age of 75 Reginald Hill died
23 Jan 2012 04:22:08
Hill charted the ups and downs of his two contrasting sleuths in more than 20 novels published over four decades after his debut, A Clubbable Woman (1970) alongside a substantial body of other crime fiction and thrillers. He won the Crime Writers Association's Golden Dagger in 1990 for Bones and Silence, and the Diamond Dagger for the series as a whole in 1995.
Writer Ian Rankin, who won the Diamond Dagger himself in 2005, paid tribute to Hill's great good humour, the intelligence of his writin... Read Full Story
